Arjan Emmanuel Sanchez Guerrero

A system of artifacts that perform on-screen and off-screen augmentations in an exploration of liminal objecthood, functionality, and environmentality.

Kirimonites is a project that arises from the recognition of ecology as automation and of the art exhibition as an ecosystem. Inspired by mutualistic relationships between organisms and their reverberating effects over larger ecosystems, a system of artifacts augment each other on-screen and off-screen, involving the audience in the development of behaviors and configurations that seek to maximize liminal objecthood, functionality, and environmentality. While trying to maximize user retention (user attention), these artifacts sense and make use of the audience’s presence as a bias for evolutionary mechanisms such as selection and cross-pollination.

I’m an artist from Mexico City currently investigating computational worlding and technologies of augmentation through object-oriented and glitching protocols. Evidence based, my work is frequently signed by Media Forensis agency, a platform for transdisciplinary collaboration from where I have pair-programmed Materias Mediales, an online summer course and a series of talks on artistic research at its intersection with contemporary techno-sciences.